That's the advice given in a legal filing in Rockford Brewing Co. v. Rockford Brewing Co., separate companies in Illinois and Michigan that are fighting over the name.

"If there was every a case in which the parties should sit down over a beer and resolve their disputes, without question, this is that case," U.S. District for the Northern District of Illinois Magistrate Iain D. Johnston said in a Feb. 26 filing in the trademark case.

The local brewery, which is open Friday and Saturday nights in the Prairie Street Brewhouse complex, 200 Prairie St., sued its Michigan namesake in January after the Michigan brewery sent a cease and desist letter regarding the use of the name here.

Johnston noted that the two sides are talking.

"The Court looks forward to hearing from the parties on or before the March 27, 2014 status that the case has been resolved," Johnston wrote.